The department signed an agreement with Sen Do Technology JSC and Viettel Post Corporation, the respective owner of e-commerce platforms Sendo.vn and Voso.vn, to launch the pavilion on the two sites.

Online Friday 2019 to take place on December 6.

Bui Huy Hoang from the Vietnam E-Pavilion project said the quality of all Vietnamese products is now being controlled by the MoIT to make buyers feel secure.

The Vietnam E-Pavilion has been set up to distribute leading Vietnamese products for low costs, enabling local producers to diversify their distribution systems and promote their brands, while allowing consumers to buy goods directly from producers, he said.

The department also gave updates on Vietnam’s largest online shopping day, Online Friday, on December 6.

More than 1,000 brands will take part in Online Friday 2019, offering about 50,000 items with discounts of up to 70 percent. Transactions on the day are expected to top 2.5 trillion VND (107.7 million USD), said Dang Hoang Hai, director of the department.

It will also involve Shopee, Tiki and Sanhangre besides manufacturing companies such as Oppo and Habeco, and distributors of genuine goods, he said.

On sale will be essential goods for the Tet holiday, home appliances, tech products, cosmetics, fashion items, airline tickets, books, and stationery products, he added.

Besides, an e-commerce experience week is being held in Hanoi, HCM City and Da Nang to provide shoppers with practical experience of online shopping, QR code scanning, voucher hunting, among others, he said.

E-commerce helps promote Vietnamese brands to int’l markets

Introduced on the global online market Amazon.com, many traditional products of Vietnam have been attracting international consumers, contributing to promoting purchase power and increasing sales. 

Vietnam works to close loopholes in e-commerce

Vietnam’s fast-growing e-commerce sector has posed a great challenge for the Government as many retailers are using loopholes in management regulations to trade counterfeit goods and cheat consumers, thus creating economic losses and shattering shoppers’ confidence in genuine e-commerce activities.

Vietnam's e-commerce market to hit 15 billion USD by 2020

 

Amazon to train Vietnamese small firms in e-commerce

Amazon will train 100 Vietnamese businesses to develop their business on its platform.

2,000 booths transacted on Bac Giang e-commerce website

(BGO)- According to the statistics of the Center for Trade Promotion of Bac Giang province, nearly 2,000 booths of about 1,000 firms join the website and e-commerce website of the provincial Department of Industry and Trade at https://socongthuong.bacgiang.gov.vn and http://san24h.vn.

Source: VNA